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"My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind."
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"Cultural values change with times, unless they are built on an absolute standard of values and virtues. This standard must be afterwards well-guarded and protected."
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"Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet."
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"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement."
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Personal Development
"Tradition is a guide and not a jailer."
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Personal Development
"There's always time for arguin' when you're a Fuentes."
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Personal Development
"Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned."
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Personal Development
"That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition."
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"God bless the lawn mower, he thought. Who was the fool who made January first New Year's Day? No, they should set a man to watch the grasses across a million Illinois, Ohio, and Iowa lawns, and on that morning when it was long enough for cutting, instead of ratchets and horns and yelling, there should be a great swelling symphony of lawn mowers reaping fresh grass upon the prairie lands. Instead of confetti and serpentine, people should throw grass spray at each other on the one day each year that really represents Beginning!"
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"History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it."
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"You see a wile, you thwart. Am I right?"
Strategy
"There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do."
Evil
"Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like ared flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front ofsomeone who was annoyed by it."
Humor
"It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines."
Geography
"Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them."
Entertainment
"I don't reckon it's allowed, going round setting fire to people, said Adam. "Otherwise people'd be doin' it all the time."It's all right if you're religious, said Brian reassuringly. "And it stops the witches from goin' to Hell, so I expect they'd be quite grateful if they understood it properly."
Fear
"But is all this true?" said Brutha.Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork."You mean you don't KNOW it's true?" said Brutha."I THINK it might be," said Didactylos. "I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about."
Philosophy
"When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary."
Power
"It's supposed to be jolly, with mistletoe and holly... and other things ending in olly."
Culture
"Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it."
Society
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